Alcaeus ( Alkaios, ) of Mytilene ( c. 620 – 6th century BC ), Greek lyric poet from Lesbos Island who is credited with inventing the Alcaic verse.

He was born into the aristocratic, warrior class that dominated Mytilene, the strongest city-state on the island of Lesbos and, by the end of the seventh century BC, the most influential of all the North Aegean Greek cities, with a strong navy and colonies securing its trade-routes in the Hellespont.

Mikis Theodorakis was born on the Greek island of Chios and spent his childhood years in different provincial Greek cities such as Mytilene, Cephallonia, Patras, Pyrgos and Tripoli.

The Greek National Road 36 connects Mytilene with Kalloni.

Mytilene and Lesbos are names of the same Greek island used interchangeably.

The army that had been sent to Naxos was still assembled at Myus and included contingents from other Greek cities of Asia Minor ( i. e. Aeolia and Doris ) as well as men from Mytilene, Mylasa, Temera and Cyme.

Cornelia took advantage of the Greek scholars she brought to Rome, notably the philosophers Blossius from Cumae and Diophanes from Mytilene, who were to educate young men.

* Greek National Road 36: Mytilene – Kalloni-Mithymna

Aeolic Greek is most widely known for being the language of the writings of Sappho and Alcaeus of Mytilene.

* The so-called Georgian version originally written by Peter ’ s contemporary, Zacharias Rhetor, bishop of Mytilene, in Greek has preserved as a manuscript of c. 13th century.

The revolutionary movement swiftly spread to other centres of old and new Greece and to the Greek gunboats stationed at Mytilene and in and about the port of Piraeus.

Mytilene was occupied by Greek forces near the end of 1912.

Turkish stamps were seized from the main post office and overprinted with Ελληνική Κατοχή Μυτιλήνης (" Greek Occupation of Mytilene ").

Since there was no Greek currency available on Mytilene at the time, the overprinted stamps retained their value in Turkish paras and piastres.

Horace, whose career crossed the divide between republic and empire, followed Catullus ' lead in employing Greek lyrical forms, identifying with Alcaeus of Mytilene, composing Alcaic stanzas, and also with Archilochus, composing poetic invectives in the Iambus tradition ( in which he adopted the metrical form of the Epode or ' Iambic Distich ').

The theatre was inspired after Pompey's visit in 62 BC to a Greek theatre in Mytilene.

Pompey was supposedly inspired to build his theatre from a visit to the Greek theatre of Mytilene on Lesbos.

The following epigram by Greek Epigrammatist Crinagoras of Mytilene is considered to be Cleopatra ’ s eulogy.

The Alcaic stanza is a Greek lyrical meter, an Aeolic verse form traditionally believed to have been invented by Alcaeus, a lyric poet from Mytilene on the island of Lesbos, about 600 BC.

* Hayreddin Barbarossa, ( c. 1478 – 1546 ), privateer and Ottoman admiral, Greek mother, Katerina from Mytilene on the island of Lesbos

Lesbos () (, transliterated as Lesvos, sometimes also referred to as Mytilini after its major city Mytilene ) is a Greek island located in the northeastern Aegean Sea.

* Mytilene ( Μυτιλήνη )

Several pressing concerns presented themselves ; 50 Peloponnesian ships under Eteonicus remained at Mytilene, blockading Conon, and decisive action by the Athenians could lead to the destruction of that force as well, but, at the same time, ships needed to be dispatched to recover the sailors of the twenty five Athenian triremes sunk or disabled in the battle.

Cleon carried a bill proposing fierce retribution against a rebellious Athenian ally Mytilene, including the execution of all its adult males and the enslavement of all its women and children ; the bill was repealed the next day in spite of his opposition.

Pittacus of Mytilene ( c. 640-568 BC ), one of the Seven Sages of Greece ; woodcut from the Nuremberg Chronicle.

The battle was precipitated by a Spartan victory which led to the Athenian fleet under Conon being blockaded at Mytilene ; to relieve Conon, the Athenians assembled a scratch force composed largely of newly constructed ships manned by inexperienced crews.

To address both of these concerns, the generals decided that all eight of them would sail with the majority of the fleet to Mytilene, where they would attempt to relieve Conon, while the trierarchs Thrasybulus and Theramenes would remain behind with a smaller detachment to rescue the survivors ; both of these missions, however, were thwarted by the sudden arrival of a storm which drove the ships back into port ; the Spartan fleet at Mytilene escaped, and rescuing the drowning sailors proved impossible.

Over the next year, the fleets clashed twice, first in a battle where, with twice as many ships as Conon, Callicratidas defeated the Athenians and trapped them in Mytilene ; an Athenian relief fleet then decisively defeated and killed Callicratidas at Arginusae.

It was divided into three sections, each representative of a phase of Bilitis's life: Bucolics in Pamphylia, Elegies at Mytilene, and Epigrams in the Isle of Cyprus ; dedicated to her were also a short Life of Bilitis and three epitaphs in The Tomb of Bilitis.

Lagos ( Thrace ); Dedeagatz ( Thrace ); Volos ( Thessaly ); Kavalla ( Macedonia ); Vathy ( Samos ); Mytilene ; Corfu ; Salonika ; Leros ( Dodecanese ); Rhodes.

; Refer: Mytilene ( Russian Post Office )

; Capital: Mytilene

* 428 BC: Mytilene rebels against Athens but is crushed.

The pro-Persian tyrant of Mytilene is stoned to death.

In response to the pleadings of a number of Athenian citizens, Cleon's decree to destroy the population of Mytilene is reversed with only the ringleaders of the Mytilenean revolt being executed.

When Callicratidas attacks him, Conon is forced back to Mytilene, where he is blockaded by Callicratidas ' Spartan fleet.

However, the rebellion by Mytilene is crushed before his forces can arrive.

When Aristotle moved to Mytilene on Lesbos in 345 / 4, it is very likely that he did so at the urging of Theophrastus.

Mytilene, whose name is pre-Greek, is built on the southeast edge of the island.

Mytilene is located in the southeastern part of the island, north and east of the Bay of Gera.

It is reported by Strabo upon the account of Theophanes of Mytilene who participated in it.

* 323 BCE: The city comes under the rule of Laomedon of Mytilene, who is given control of the province of Syria following Alexander's death and the resulting Partition of Babylon between the Diadochi.

The plan is thwarted when pirates kidnap Marina and then sell her to a brothel in Mytilene.

The capital of the region is situated in Mytilene on the island of Lesbos.

Vrisa () is a village in the southern part of Lesbos island approximately 50 km from Mytilene.

* Alcaeus: The great lyric poet of Mytilene, he is not mentioned by name but he is the author of some well-known verses that Philocleon adapts to a scolion directed against Cleon in lines 1232-35.

He was born in Mytilene on the isle of Lesbos in 490 BC and is reputed to have lived to the age of 85.

Eleven epigrams are extant under his name, but one is headed " Adaeus of Mytilene " and may be by a different hand, as Adaeus was a common Macedonian name.

It is unclear what role Eresos played in the Mithridatic Wars against Rome ( 88-63 BCE ) and whether, like Mytilene, it subsequently suffered for its anti-Roman stance following victory over Mithridates VI of Pontus.

The second most important town of the island, it is located NE of Eressos, N of Plomari and NW of Mytilene.

In the novel Daphnis and Chloe, thought to be by the Mytilenaean aristocrat Longus and set in the region of Lesbos between Methymna and Mytilene, the vine harvest is the most important time of the agricultural year, and the Mytilenaean owner of the land in this region times his annual visit to coincide with the end of this harvest when the year's profit can be established.